New in the Maker Shed: LED Cube kit
The LED Cube kit is an animated 3D cube of LEDs made by modifying the MiniPOV! It’s been a popular hack, and now all the parts are available in a kit from the Maker Shed.
Year: 2010
FLEA at MIT – The swapfest is today!
FLEA at MIT – The swapfest is today! more @ the swapfest site.
Quilt-Along for Whip Up Mini Quilts
Kath at Whip Up is having a quilt-along for her book Whip Up Mini Quilts. See our review for her beautiful quilting book where Kath also shares with us some great quilting tips. Kath writes: Each Friday for 6 weeks [more or less] – I am going to post one of the quilts from the […]
Google maps wristlet navigator watch
Simon Jansen, he of Star Wars ASCIImation, the TARDIS MAME console, Beer Brewing Bender fame, was recently inspired by the 1920s “Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator” that he’d sent us the link to some weeks back. He decided to try and build one. I made my own version, using some brass bits and pieces, a […]
TextTool: Secrets of the beehive
Princeton Architectural Press has done it again, producing a book that is as beautiful and tactile as it is thought-provoking and educational. BEE, by artist and photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher, is basically a photo gallery of scanning electron microscope photographs of bee anatomy. The pictures, ranging in magnification from 10x to 5000x, are stunning, and by […]
How-To: Make your own EL wire
The ever-industrious Jeri Ellsworth shows you how she made her own electroluminescent (EL) wire using enameled magnet wire, bare copper wire, and EL phosphors. And don’t forget the rubber cement coating when you’re done so that you don’t shock the Dickens out of you. EL Wire Made at Home – The Currency of Burning Man
Post-apocalyptic tanker truck home concept
From designer Aristide Antonas. More pictures in his Flickr set. [Thanks, Billy Baque!]